Reviews

I used to live on Otay Mesa just a few miles away from where the events that open One Battle After Another (2025) are set. We got married in those coastal, desert mountains. My wife changed her surname at the border crossing DMV. We bought our a double-nest hammock at the REI in the Otay…

My youngest brother turned twenty-nine years old the other day, and that means I am very not twenty-nine years old anymore. We texted briefly about his plans for his birthday. He said he and his wife were going to see a movie that night. He didn’t know which one. I said I had seen just…

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is Tom Cruise’s Tree of Life.  One film is a largely wordless meditation on the key formational experiences of a man’s life in light of the death of a loved one held in contrast with the fate of the world, a spiritual journey of reconciliation through space and time…